The damage has been landing harder and faster than even I would have imagined. The hard-right pivot is offering short-term good but almost certainly foreshadows a lot of long-term bad. It’s like Reaganomics, but substantially more petty and regressive.
It was a mixed blessing that I scored Bulls tickets on the night of Trump’s address to both houses of Congress. What I read and saw after was as interminable as I expected; the usual bluster, but also an exaggerated sense of accomplishment. The double standard of Rep. Al Green (D-TX) getting kicked out for interrupting when Lauren Boebert (R-CO) did the same thing during the Biden years without punishment. I hope progressives, liberals, and centrists alike follow Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI) word and get involved for the sake of the country.
On a lighter note, my next blog post will be my annual baseball haikus. We could all use the diversion.
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